The Thirty Million Line Problem

What this video covers

Casey Muratori's long talk arguing that modern software has ballooned to tens of millions of lines because of hardware and OS diversity. He proposes a stable ISA for entire system-on-a-chip packages and recalls when games shipped with their own boot disk.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN recommends it, long as it is, as an eye-opening rant on software complexity and why systems became so complicated.

Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“The video is long, but it's worth watching all of it.”

“Yes, modern computer systems are unbelievably complicated from the application level down to the hardware.”

“Casey Murati has a great rant about this”